Kundai Watson Fingson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4052258 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kundai Watson Fingson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kundai Watson |
| FAMILY NAME | Fingson |
| SIGNATURE | FINGSON K W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4644-8655 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Re-memorying Mugabe through Digital Parody in the ‘New Dispensation’
This paper analyses the re-memorying of Robert Mugabe through digital parody in what is popularly, yet infamously, referred to as the New Dispensation, that is, the post-Mugabe period. We explore the strategies employed by the parodists, namely, Jah Bobo and MukuZim1, to exhume Mugabe (where the state has failed) and the implications of such creative exhumations on how Mugabe is remembered. We use re-memory here in the sense that it is not only a…
Country and countryhood
Country is a recurring metaphoric trope in NoViolet Bulawayo’s novels, Glory and We Need New Names, that layers multiple meanings of the nation as a post-colonial political project. This trope recurs in neo-nationalist discourses where competing constructions of progress in Zimbabwe pervade, for instance, the former President Mugabe’s personalising discourses of Zimbabwe as his, and the current President Mnangagwa’s linguistic constructs of post-…
An Afro-cosmological Approach to Marechera’s The House of Hunger (1978)
Marechera and his literary texts do not fit easily into Africanist categories of reading, principally due to his vitriolic invocation of the ‘f-word’ when asked if he was an African writer. Despite this iconoclasm, Afro-cosmic creeds undeniably inform aspects of his novella. An Afro-cosmological approach acknowledges non-empirical influences for certain behavioural traits portrayed by various characters in the novella which Marechera utilises and…
The University of Zimbabwe Department of English’s Dambudzo Marechera (2013–2018)
In this article, I discuss the personal (autobiographical), literary and political relationship between Dambudzo Marechera’s texts, the University of Zimbabwe’s then Department of English and my own development as an early career scholar. This relationship went beyond academia. Through a reflection on the various pedagogical approaches used by the department’s lecturing staff, I arrive at Marechera’s lasting literary legacy vis a vis the implicat…
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An Afro-cosmological Approach to Marechera’s The House of Hunger (1978)
Marechera and his literary texts do not fit easily into Africanist categories of reading, principally due to his vitriolic invocation of the ‘f-word’ when asked if he was an African writer. Despite this iconoclasm, Afro-cosmic creeds undeniably inform aspects of his novella. An Afro-cosmological approach acknowledges non-empirical influences for certain behavioural traits portrayed by various characters in the novella which Marechera utilises and…
The University of Zimbabwe Department of English’s Dambudzo Marechera (2013–2018)
In this article, I discuss the personal (autobiographical), literary and political relationship between Dambudzo Marechera’s texts, the University of Zimbabwe’s then Department of English and my own development as an early career scholar. This relationship went beyond academia. Through a reflection on the various pedagogical approaches used by the department’s lecturing staff, I arrive at Marechera’s lasting literary legacy vis a vis the implicat…
Country and countryhood
Country is a recurring metaphoric trope in NoViolet Bulawayo’s novels, Glory and We Need New Names, that layers multiple meanings of the nation as a post-colonial political project. This trope recurs in neo-nationalist discourses where competing constructions of progress in Zimbabwe pervade, for instance, the former President Mugabe’s personalising discourses of Zimbabwe as his, and the current President Mnangagwa’s linguistic constructs of post-…
Re-memorying Mugabe through Digital Parody in the ‘New Dispensation’
This paper analyses the re-memorying of Robert Mugabe through digital parody in what is popularly, yet infamously, referred to as the New Dispensation, that is, the post-Mugabe period. We explore the strategies employed by the parodists, namely, Jah Bobo and MukuZim1, to exhume Mugabe (where the state has failed) and the implications of such creative exhumations on how Mugabe is remembered. We use re-memory here in the sense that it is not only a…
African studies and sociopolitical issues (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 works)